woodbine

IPA: wˈʊdbaɪn

Root Word: Woodbine

noun

  • A British brand of unfiltered cigarette, now made in Ireland
  • A small city, the county seat of Camden County, Georgia, United States.
  • A cigarette of this brand.
  • (Australia, slang, World War I) A British soldier.
  • Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper
  • Species of Lonicera (honeysuckle)
  • Lonicera periclymenum, European honeysuckle, common honeysuckle
  • Lonicera xylosteum, European fly honeysuckle, dwarf honeysuckle, fly woodbine
  • Species of Parthenocissus
  • Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Virginia creeper
  • Parthenocissus tricuspidata, Japanese creeper, Boston ivy
  • Parthenocissus vitacea, now Parthenocissus inserta, thicket creeper, false Virginia creeper, grape woodbine
  • Clematis virginiana, devil's darning needle
  • Gelsemium sempervirens, yellow jessamine
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Examples of "woodbine" in Sentences

  • If I were him I'd be keeping my head down woodbine
  • Curl inward here, sweet woodbine flow'r; — 'Companion of the lonely hour,
  • The roses and woodbine planted around the door by her mother had formed a riotous, twining mat.
  • Damask roses—scarlet and white, yellow and cream—had been brought in from the garden and made into long garlands twined with wild woodbine.
  • Much that is called “woods” was about half as high as this, — only patches of shrub-oak, bayberry, beach-plum, and wild roses, overrun with woodbine.
  • Were these MP's about during the time of rationing they would be selling ladys nylons out of a suitcase of a street corner, woodbine in the corner of the mouth and keeping an eye out for Dixon of the yard.
  • In the evening a walk was proposed; the path they took led to a rustic arbour, enclosed by bold rocky scenery, whose entrance was almost impeded by the profusion of woodbine which carelessly wantoned around it.
  • She retreated by a gate which, leading to the road, was overhung by some wild rocky scenery, in which appeared a sort of artificial aperture, but it was rendered almost inaccessible from the unrestrained woodbine which covered it, and appeared formerly to have been a sort of arbour.

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